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Most painters spend decades chasing what Kyle Ma already has at 25. His plein air work captures the play of light with remarkable accuracy and subtlety, supported by consummate drawing and delivered with brushwork that manages to be both lively and sensitive. His compositions are thoughtful and immensely satisfying to contemplate, his tonal and color relationships so carefull...

For more than 50 years, Walt Gonske has been painting the same churches. The same adobe walls, bleached by New Mexico’s high-desert sun. The same weathered cemeteries, scattered with wooden crosses, statues of the Virgin Mary, and bursts of plastic flowers left by families who buried their dead there. And yet, he says, he has never painted the same painting twice.

By Christopher Volpe

Lots of people who wish they could paint say things like, “I can’t even draw a straight line.” The irony is, in painting you don’t even have to – you just have to be willing to keep adjusting and correcting until it “straightens itself out.” 

For that matter, plenty of folks who become artists later in life would have started a lot sooner if...

Edgar Degas never wanted to leave well enough alone.

He arrived in painting almost sideways — a year at the École des Beaux-Arts, three years studying in Italy, then a return to Paris where he dutifully followed convention and worked in oils, like everyone else. His early masterwork, The Bellelli Family, took nearly a decade to complete. It was accomplished. It ...

At a glance, a landscape can feel overwhelming — an accumulation of trees and rock, atmosphere and light, foreground and background. The painter’s challenge is to distill that complexity into something understandable, something that invites a viewer in. For landscape painter Ellie Wilson that requires physically experiencing a place — hiking it, moving through it, and seeing ...